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Review by Sos all reviews by Sos

In this game you are to protect the world from evil Dr.F. You are in control of a tank, a helicopter, or both with the ability to switch between these. As you take your actions you are attacked by numerous static and mobile enemies. The goal of each level is to destroy the bunker, which is heavily reinforced.

The game is of infinite length, for if you beat the last level, it appears that the Dr. F (Princess F?) is \"in another castle\" :P Apart from that game seems quite complete though. Marking is as follows:

Artistic: 3
Graphics are well done, yet most of the levels seem empty, and you can simply wander off to a desert with nothing around. The cutscenes are ncie however.

Technical: 2
The game is playable, yet unbeatable. The enemies aim well (using atan2) however if you simply follow the green arrow (which shows bunker\'s location) and shoot mad at the bunker you can beat the game in about 3 minutes or so.
There is also no player - building collision detection

Rules: 4
One by one:
World domination: Dr F is said to have plans to dominate the world, so it\'s a-ok
Destruction: Destruction is an essential part of the game, but buildings are invincible (:/) that\'s why 4, not 5
Dialogues: There are insulting dialogues (and hilarious ones either)
atan2: Used for bunker arrow and enemy aiming.

Overall it\'s a good game, yet too easy to play, and impossible to beat.

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 3 Technical 2 Genre 4

Review by BigBrain all reviews by BigBrain

In this game you control a tank or a chopper (or both) and try to defeat the bases of the enemies. They will of course defend the bases by attacking you.

Artistical:
The graphics fit together very well and the dialogs show up quite smooth. There are many different objects in the game (many just as an extra detail like trees etc).

Technical:
atan2 is used at least for the AI aiming (didn\'t dig into the sourcecode too much)- All game elements work together quite well, and the game engine features many types of them (e.g. menu background animation, intro, player, driving enemies, towers, trees, base, ...)

Genre:
Destruction is not happening \"all around, all the time\", but it\'s an essential part of the game to destroy the enemies and the base. A problem with the gameplay is, that the game is way to easy: dying takes ages as one hit only deals 4 damage (from 100 HP) and if you play as chopper you can\'t die at all if you fly high.

Overall one can say that there are many little details featured in the game which makes it look very polished. The gameplay isn\'t too fun, as the game is way too easy, but could be tweaked easily (less health, more damage, less movement speed, ...). However, I liked the game very much because the details were worked out so nicely, and that\'S what TINS is all about, isn\'t it? ;-)

Scores: Overall 4 Artistical 4 Technical 4 Genre 3